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Stanza MDCCCLXXVI
I sometimes feel as if I’m invisible, as if no one can see me at all. I never felt that way when I lived at the Lake House. You want to know why I came back so fast? I got to the end of our lane. I couldn’t remember where the old town road was. […] 0 Comments
November 28, 2012

Stanza MCCLXXX
Your heart is free have the courage to follow it. Are you in the habit of riding off in the rain with strangers? The rain is falling straight down. Well, slightly to the side like. Now, you’ve achieved more than anyone ever dreamed. But, fighting these odds, it looks like rage, not courage. We’ll stay […] 0 Comments
October 11, 2012

Breaking News: The Brooklyn Book Festival Interview
In our continued effort to stay relevant, TLM sent our reknowed Ronald Templeton to the Brooklyn Book Festival. It’s been three weeks, and we haven’t heard from him. However, the following interview between Templeton, The Internet Poet and The Epic Poet was pieced together from several napkins. No one involved has any memory of this. […] 0 Comments
October 10, 2012

Stanza III
My conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious. We are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, […] 0 Comments
September 20, 2012

Stanza CCCIX
You see that water tower. One day our names will be up there in bold letters. Don’t take this serious, but it’s nothing to joke about. One day, your gift will be gone. You can call it angels, you can call it whatever you want. Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people […] 0 Comments
September 12, 2012

Stanza MCMXCII
I know you will never entirely comprehend this: the course of action I’d suggest is a course of action I can’t suggest. I miss the peace of fishing like when I was a boy. Forty years I’ve been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments, only casualties. I widowed […] 0 Comments
September 5, 2012

From the Desk of Literary Affairs
In our constant efforts to provide our readers with timely reporting on all things literary, we recently commissioned the highly inquisitive cub reporter, Ronald Templeton, to venture to Brooklyn and wire back a report on the literary scene. Unfortunately, due to the economy, we could not provide Tempeton with anything other than a typewriter, one piece of […] 0 Comments
August 29, 2012

Stanza MMMI
I’ve got a piece to speak, and blow hot or cold, I’m going to speak it. They tried to ruin me, but they are ruined. They tried to ruin me because they didn’t like what I have done. Do you like what I’ve done? All combat takes place at night, in the rain, The story […] 0 Comments
August 28, 2012

The Hottest Disney Character List
Literarians, Among my many positions and appointments, I teach a class at the University of Alsace Lorraine on the Disney Renaissance. The focus of the class is, of course, the relationship of post-modern fairy tales with the romantic yearning of youth. Our context is the rise of the millennial generation and their sense of entitlement […] 0 Comments
August 23, 2012